Portable Genealogist: Getting Started with U.S. WWII Records
Learn about WWII draft registration cards, using the census to determine if your ancestor served; accessing Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Army files at the National Personnel Records Center; and using record collections at the National Archives and other repositories.
By Melanie McComb
Published by American Ancestors in January 2025
8 ½ x 11 laminated, 4 pages
Portable Genealogist: Getting Started with U.S. WWI Records
Learn about WWI draft registration cards; using the census to determine if your ancestor served; accessing Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Army files at the National Personnel Records Center; and using record collections at the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and other repositories.
By David Allen Lambert
Published by American Ancestors in January 2025
8 ½ x 11 laminated, 4 pages
Portable Genealogist: Getting Started with U.S. War of 1812 Records
This handy guide will help you determine whether your ancestor served in the U.S. Army State Volunteers in the War of 1812 by using the Compiled Military Service Records (CMSRs). For U.S. Regular Army veterans, learn how to use enlistment, discharge, and prisoner of war records. For those who served in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, using muster and pay rolls, casualty reports, and courts martial records may allow you to further your research.
Portable Genealogist: Getting Started with Revolutionary War Records
Learn what records exist and where to find them, what information they contain, and how to use them to further your research.
By Ann G. Lawthers, ScD
Published by American Ancestors in January 2025
8 ½ x 11 laminated, 4 pages
Portable Genealogist: Getting Started with Newspapers in Family History Research
Learn how to locate different types of newspapers and take advantage of the wealth of genealogical information they can contain, including birth, engagement, marriage, and death announcements; legal and court notices; notices of land sales; crime reporting; social reporting; advertisements; and shipping news.
By Ann G. Lawthers, ScD
Published by American Ancestors in January 2025
8 ½ x 11 laminated, 4 pages
Portable Genealogist: Getting Started with Civil War Veteran Records
Our military expert will show you how to use the 1890 Veterans Schedules and the 1910 and 1930 U.S. Censuses to determine on which side your ancestor fought. Then examine records for the U.S. Army, Confederate Army, and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps by using the Compiled Military Service Records (CMSRs) and the National Park Service’s Soldiers and Sailors Database.